oxycontin

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I have not taken this med, but many of you have. I found this article

interesting.

Cheryl

To: DEA and National Press

The Petition to Save OxyContin:

The miracle drug for Intractable Pain

We American Chronic Intractable Pain Patients have been in a life and

death struggle to be able to get the pain medication we need. Even

those of us with Cancer have been forced to kill ourselves because we

can't get the pain medicine we need. The DEA has violated the

Controlled Substances Act, and permitted uneducated Field Agents

set " dosage amounts " across the country by falsely, arresting doctors

who treat pain if they provide " adequate and ongoing " amounts that

patients need. We believe that the DEA's latest assault against us

has been to use its " assets in the press " to start a feeding frenzy

over the few OxyContin deaths around the country by addicts using it

by crushing it up, " cooking it " and then shooting it up while

drinking and using other drugs as well.

Those deaths are nothing compared to the deaths of American Pain

Patients who cannot get pain medicine because of the " Purge of Pain

Doctors " that the DEA has been involved in over the past 6 years.

16,500 of us die of the bleeding complications of NSAIDS because

doctors are afraid to provide us with " real " pain medicine instead.

Our suicide rate is 900% above the average because of the " Purge of

Pain Doctors " and tens of thousands of us die of strokes and heart

attacks over the increased blood pressure caused by nationwide

untreated chronic pain. NIH calls the under treatment of pain

a " National Disaster " but rather than stopping this " disaster "

the " Lap Dog Press " is pumping out these OxyContin Con Jobs that have

the public up in arms over the deaths of addicts who took some

OxyContin along with their alcohol and other drugs to get a high.

We Chronic Pain Patients don't' even FEEL any kind of High or

Euphoria when we take OxyContin, the pain just goes down far enough

so that we can have a 'normal' life despite our life threatening

painful conditions now being blocked from treatment. Most of us

have " suicidal pain levels " that can ONLY be controlled with

medication like OxyContin, and it only takes a " few pills per day " to

control that kind of pain because of its unique compounding. The DEA

had set the " daily pill count " low, that CAUSED the need for the

compounding the OxyContin drug in the first place, as the only way

that pain could be controlled around the clock. The Purdue Pharma

Company was RIGHT to market this medicine as the kind of miracle drug

that it is, and every doctor in America should be using it for their

patients suffering. The DEA's efforts to distroy OxyContin is in

violation of their agreement to stand by the Dallas Covenant they

made three years ago to support the Pain Treatment Guidelines by the

Federation of United States Medical Boards you can review at the link

below.*

Instead, doctors are taking patients OFF the drug because of the

false and misleading stories in the public press and the so

called " news. " We therefore present this petition to SAVE OXYCONTIN

for those Fifty Million of us who suffer and are having our pain

medication dosages set by the DEA rather than the Medical Community.

We ask that all Americans who are fed up with the way Pain Patients

are treated in difference to addicts, to sign this petition on behalf

of OxyContin, for our very lives depend on saving this wonder drug

that has given back so many Americans their lives. Please make a

Remark about how OxyContin or any pain medicine has changed and or

saved your life.

Sincerely yours,

Skip Baker, President, American Society for Action on Pain.

* http://www.asappain.com/Patspeach.html

http://www.asappain.com/

http://www.actiononpain.org